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This, however, is my teaching: He who wants to learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and to walk and to run and to climb and to dance - you cannot learn to fly by flying! Zarathustra - The Spirit Of Gravity

[chris-reads-books]

"Mature manhood: that means to have resdicscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

[chris-reads-books]

current read.

“…all company is bad company except the company of one’s equals…”

[fyp-philosophy]

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via fyp-philosophy)

[ameliahb]

Had a fun time at the art gallery today @chris-reads-books

[chris-reads-books]

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (via chris-reads-books)

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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco (via chris-reads-books)

[chris-reads-books]

It’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.

Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan (via chris-reads-books)

[seiamoon-deactivated20210721]

Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Rainer Maria Rilke (via hemingwayslemonade)

[chris-reads-books]

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco (via chris-reads-books)

[chris-reads-books]

Haste makes no speed.

Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

[purplebuddhaproject]

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

 T.S. Eliot (via purplebuddhaproject)

[fyp-philosophy]

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via fyp-philosophy)

[stoicremains-deactivated2017102]

I, who have seen you amid the primal things, Was angry when they spoke your name In ordinary places.

Ezra Pound, Francesca (via whyallcaps)

[wordsnquotes]

Sometimes I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present…

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via hemingwayslemonade)

[ameliahbphotos]

[ameliahbphotos]

Dad’s garden has lovely flowers

[purplebuddhaproject]

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Hermann Hesse (via purplebuddhaproject)